Solaris 10 installation

[scorney]

Hello, I received the new Solaris 10 in DVD and I realized that my 2 Netra T1120 has only CDROM, so I decided to download the 5 CDs from SUN, they are xxx.iso.zip so i used NERO to burned them, nothing work... I burned the first CD 2 times and still doesn't work..
How can I use the DVD in one of my WinXP computer and boot from network, Is it do-able? I read in the SUN forum that i need to have another server which is running on the same OS level.

Any Ideas would be much appreciated.
Thanks...

 

[hayes47]

You could download the Windows 2003 resource kit and install(works on XP), unzip your isos and then use the command line cdburn utility to burn your iso.

 

[maximusGeek]

What happens when you boot from the CD?

ok boot cdrom
ok boo cdrom -s

 

[scorney]

Can't open boot device

 

[maximusGeek]

Do you have any other CD's laying around? I would try and boot -s off one of them, test to see if its the drive or the CD. I have had problems with my drive

you can try a PROBE-SCSI-ALL from the OK. See if there are any problems with the drive.

 

[scorney]

I tried it on both of my servers and got the same result.

I did ran probe-scsi and both of them work fine since I re-installed Solaris 9 with them. So my problem is most likely my CDs (Solaris 10) that I've burned, would be just nice if i could install solaris 10 from network... If not i'll have to look for a DVD-ROM SCSI on ebay ...

 

[maximusGeek]

You can set up a jumpstart server. check out Sun Blue Prints Jumpstart or the Solaris 10 documentation.